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image credit & copyright: Petr Horálek




you wake up in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa

you go outside your tent, set up your camera, and take long exposures of the land and sky

what might you see ?

besides a lot of blowing dust and the occasional acacia tree, you might catch many sky wonders

pictured in 2015 september, sky highlights include the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, the Pleiades Star Cluster, Barnard's Loop, and both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, to name just a few

although most of these faded in the morning light, they were quickly replaced by a partial eclipse of the Sun


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in apod.nasa.gov/apod